The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) train maintenance depot that has created controversy in Brunswick will probably be an ugly sheet- metal structure that will remind me of all the dilapidated factories and warehouses that were More...

Joe Biden is always ready to jump in as a character witness for Barack Obama. In the last presidential election, he offered effusive testimony that Obama was not too snooty to appeal to skeptical working-class voters. More...

I’ll be shocked if there’s another book this year as important as Charles Murray’s “Coming Apart.” I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American More...

The Associated Press reported last week that Fidel Castro, the former president of Cuba, wrote an opinion piece on a Cuban website, following a Republican Party presidential candidates’ debate in Florida, in which he argued that the “sele More...

“There doesn’t seem to be any reason for cuts like this to a district of this size. Based on what’s happened to the community, I would think there would have to be some sort of stopgaps available.” More...

The only way to achieve VA Secretary Eric Shinseki’s goal for 2015 — that every disability compensation claim gets processed within 125 days and with 98 percent accuracy — is to shift to a paperless claims system. More...

In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008. Among the populist pledges rolled out in the speech was tough talk against the too-big-tofail banks that have funded hi More...